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It’s been months since the idol awards, since they had taken down gwi-Ma and created the new honmoon. The girls were resting on their beloved couch, fighting the heat of summer and the stress of figuring out this new honmoon, they didn’t know if they could handle any more stress.

“It’s so hooooot! The AC is doing nothiiiiing!” Zoey whines, standing in front of the vent trying to cool down.

“Well what’s it set at??” Rumi shouts from her room.

“Uhhhh 24°?”

“Well obviously it’s doing nothing you gotta set it colder than that!” She replies, Zoey quickly sets it lower.

As the room cools, the elevator dings. They weren’t expecting guests, they turn towards the elevator, their eyes widen with both confusion and anger.

“You’re fucking joking.” Mira mutters.

the Saja Boys come out of the elevator, looking rather nervous  and docile instead of their usual evil looking smugness.

“What the hell?!? I thought we killed you guys!” Mira steps forward ready to fight, immediately summoning her weapon.

“Wait!” Pushing between the boys from the back of the elevator comes Jinu, his hands raised in surrender.

“We’re not here to fight..” he looks at the girls with pleading eyes, he scans the room until his eyes fall on Rumi.. his breath hitches.. her eyes are wide, staring at him in disbelief, tears well up im her eyes, both of relief and pure rage. shit. She’s gonna be mad…

“Jinu…?” Rumi walks forward, almost beelining it towards Jinu. Mira keeps her weapon steady.

“Rumi.. I-“ he’s interrupted by a slap to the face and a tug at his ear.

“AH- ow ow ow”

“Are you out of your fucking mind?!? Sacrificing yourself like that! What were you thinking?!? I thought you died you ass!”

“I-I’m sorry! I had to! You could’ve gotten hurt!” Everyone is just watching the scene unfold, the guys holding back laughter while Jinu gets scolded like a child. The girls both proud and afraid at how scary Rumi seems at the moment. After scolding his ear off, she finally lets go.

“Ok.. now that I’m done with that.” She draws her sword on the rest of them.

“Explain yourselves. How and why are you here?” The boys too afraid to get cut up stay silent. Jinu groans as he runs his ear and slowly gets up.

“We’re.. stuck here.. ow Rumi you pulled hard..”

“Oh hush. But what do you mean you’re stuck here? You were all killed.”

“Yeah! I sliced your abs to pieces!”

“Wait.. you think your weapons kill us??”

The girls all look at each other. Wondering if everything they know is about to crumble.

“Do they not??” Zoey asks. Mystery steps forward.

“No.. they just send us back to the demon realm..” The hunters look at each other again. Everything they know crumbling as they speak. Abby speaks up.

“We returned to fight after you took us out. But then..” Rumi interrupts him.

“We made the new honmoon.”

“Not only that. You killed gwi-Ma.” Mystery steps further from the group of guys, already feeling claustrophobic.

“Wait.. what???” Zoey looks at him with a mixture of surprise and excitement.

“Yeah. Gwi-Ma is dead. And without him around controlling us, we’re kinda stuck here. It’s not like we can go back ourselves, not with the honmoon. Not that we wanna go back I mean!” Romance leans against the wall. Mira backs up slowly, then quickly pulls the girls into a different room.

“Ok. So. We kill them right?”

“Mira! No! They need our help! What if they’re.. you know.. nice?” Zoey protests.

“They’re demons!! There are no nice demons!!” Mira shouts back.

“Ahem!” Rumi glares at her arms crossed. Her expression saying (are we being so deadass right now?)

“Oh.. right..” Mira backs down embarrassed.

“Well. What can we even do for them!?” Zoey and Rumi look at each other, then at Mira, a plan already finished in their minds.

“No.. oh no.. you cannot be serious.”

Zoey and Rumi both nod slowly with grins on their faces. Mira sighs in defeat. The girls walk back out to the living room. The boys are waiting on the couch.

“Ok. First things first. You will be staying with us. on the condition, that you make the effort to be normal. If you can’t do that then you’re out of here. Understood?”

The boys all nod.

“Good! Now. You.” Rumi points at Jinu. He freezes in fear.

“My room. Now.” Abby nudges romance with a shitty grin on his face.

“Well that was fast, I thought for sure he’d have to wait a least a week!”

Jinu follows Rumi into her room. She crosses her arms and faces him, nothing but anger on her face.

“Your turn. Explain yourself.”

“Uhh we already did..”

“No. I’m not talking about them. I’m talking about YOU. How are YOU here? I watched you die right in front of me… you sacrificed yourself for me… how are you here..?”

Her voice starts breaking, tears welling up in her eyes, the months of mourning his loss in secret finally catching up to her.. he reached out and grabs her hand, making all forms of self control shatter. She breaks down in tears, all those nights of trying not to cry as to not wake up her bandmates, to avoids questioning because gods forbid they find out she’s mourning the loss of a demon, all that pretending to not care for him or miss him whenever the girls talk about the Saja Boys and how good it felt to finally take them down. All that hidden mourning, crashing down at once, the reality of his touch being the final blow. He holds her close, comforting her.

“I gave you my soul. It kept me alive, and with gwi-Ma gone, I was able to come back without him hunting me down..”She smacks his shoulder repeatedly.

“You ass.. if you were alive this whole time why didn’t you say anything.. or tell me.. or come see me?!” Jinu looks away, almost looking ashamed of himself.

“I.. I don’t know.. it didn’t seem like a good idea at the time.. I didn’t think you’d want to see me after.. everything I did.”

“You jerk! You could have at least made it known to me that you were alive! Do you know how many nights I’ve tried not to cry myself to sleep, or try not to cry too loud to not alert Mira and Zoey?? Damn it Jinu you should have said something!” She shoves him lightly, no real harm meant in it.

“I’m.. I’m sorry.. rumi. I really am.. I should have come see you, I’m sorry I didn’t.”

She composes herself, wiping her tears and trying to act ok.

“It’s fine.. my main concern is figuring out what to do with the rest of them..”

Jinu looks out the door and closes it.

“I think they figured that part out for you.”

“Wait. What?” Jinu points outside. She leaves the room and sees baby sitting on the couch like he owns it. Minding his own business. No one else around. The girls took that time to figure out who’s supervising who. To no one’s surprise, Zoey instantly called dibs on Mystery, and without anyone else to help, Mira took on both Romance and Abby. Baby will be fine. They think. Rumi sighs and lightly laughs im relief, that’s one less thing to worry about. She turns back around to see Jinu, standing there with a saddened and guilty expression. She walks up to him and hugs him, taken aback, he wraps his arms around her, holding her tighter.

“As furious as I am with you right now.. I’m still really glad you’re ok..” he knew what she was really saying without her saying it. She didn’t have to.

“I missed you too Rumi..”

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Zoey leads mystery to her room. Secretly giggling to herself and blushing. She closes the door behind them. Mystery looks at his surroundings.

“So this is my room! You can take over the couch over there until we find you your own space!”

“..thank you.” His voice makes her heart flutter, feeling a lot less guilty about it now that they are here trying to fit in with the rest of the world instead of stealing souls. Internally screaming, she forgets what she was supposed to do from there.

“So… what have you guys been up to..?”

“Survival.”

“Oh. Fun.. like what..?”

“Jinu found us shelter, some abandoned apartment building that was half broken down. He had a bunch of money stored somewhere from our performances as the Saja boys, so we had bedding. We tried keeping a low profile, we knew if we made any sort of trouble you guys would show up and fight..”

“You’re not wrong..” this was the most she ever heard him talk, his voice was almost hypnotic, all she could do was sit and listen with a smile on her face.

“But we figured we weren’t able to make it alone and we’re really hoping you’d be willing to help..” Zoey’s heart ached at his confession, the boys meant no harm, not willingly, they struggled and turned to the very people who wanted them gone in hopes for help? She fought the urge to pull him into a hug. The silence grew, Zoey snapped out of her trance, looked at him and spoke up.

“Well I’m glad you’re not after souls anymore. And I’m really glad you came to us for help.” Mystery looked at her, and gave her a slight smile.

“Me too..” she could feel the heat rise on her face. She couldn’t tell if it was because she was fighting every urge to kiss him or because of the summer.

Mira points to the couch in her room.

“Both of you. Sit.” Abby and Romance sit down, looking at her.

“First off we’re setting some ground rules. One, You behave, if you don’t, I won’t hesitate to send you back to the fiery pits of the demon realm.

Two, I don’t like you. And I’m making that clear because I know how much you two like to make moves on me like I’m your girlfriend, I’m not! If it gets anywhere I don’t like, I won’t hesitate to send you back to the fiery pits of the demon realm!

3, you listen to everything I say, if you don’t I-“

“You won’t hesitate to send us to the fiery pits of the demon realm. We know.” Abby says with his usual grin.

“just so you know Mira.. the demon realm isn’t fiery, it’s actually really cold.” Romance cuts in.

“Oh. Hot or cold I won’t hesitate to send you back! Understood??”

“Yeah..”

“Understood.”

“Good.” She finally lets go of her breath. Cooling down and collapsing on her bed.

“Why did it have to be 2-1..” Abby and romance sneak on the bed laying next to her.

“What’s 2-1?” Abby asks.

“The vote on either sending you back or helping you out. Rumi and Zoey both clearly have feelings for Jinu and Mystery so i was outnumbered by them wanting to help!”

“We’re not that bad.. you’ll see.. you’ll warm up to us..” romance whispers to her.

“You better hope so.”

Silence grows between them. The gears turn in her head.

“Wait a minute. Hey! Get off my bed!!”

She pushes both boys off the bed and groans into a pillow.

This is gonna be something else.. Both Mira and Zoey think to themselves.

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Morning comes, all the guys slept on a couch, baby wakes you up bright and early, checks the fridge, and is disappointed with the results, tisk tisk, they got nothing but heat to eat food. That won’t do at all. He quickly puts on a mask and a hoodie and makes his way to a grocery store, borrowing a couple hundred thousand Won from Jinu before hand. He’ll just tell him later no worries. He grabs enough food for a solid while. If he’s gonna be stuck around lovey dovey couples he’s at least gonna have access to decent food. He passes by the liquor aisle, stops dead in his tracks, and walks back.

“Hmmm… I think they check your age now though..” he quickly makes a fake id out of thin air, changes his eye color and the visible bits of his hair and grabs a bottle of wine, if a bottle of hot sauce was light work, this sure as hell would be a breeze, taste better too. Oh wait, he forgot hot sauce, whoops. He goes to check out, cashier checks his ID… it worked. He hands it back to him and finishes checking out his items, baby pays and heads back to the penthouse. Everyone is still asleep. The kitchen and the wine is calling his name.

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The house stirs as everyone, mainly the girls with the exception of Abby and baby who was already awake and making breakfast, start getting out of bed. Rumi looks at Jinu.. anger filling her. But at the same time she’s struck with relief.. he’s alive.. he’s ok.. and for a moment that’s all she seemed to care about…

Zoey stirs awake and sits up, looking across the room to see mystery. He was half hanging off the couch, nearly falling off, she quickly gets up to adjust him, she reaches down and try’s to lift him up. Jeez he’s heavier than she thought.. as she’s moving him back on the couch, he grabs her in his sleep and pulls her towards him, she tries to not make a sound, it’s no use she can’t help but squeal as he pulls her close, she’s a tug away from falling on him. Her heart races and her face flushes in red. He shifts back and pulls her closer, she loses her grip and falls into his grasp, head on his chest with his arms around her body. Her face burns in blush as both her mind and heart race.

“I guess I could lay down for a little while longer..” she thinks to herself, easing into the comfort of his arms.

This is zoey across this whole fic btw.

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Mira wakes up quickly, scanning the room for the boys. She finds them where she left them, on the couch, well.. Abby was, romance had fallen to the floor in the middle of the night. She could care less.. she thought to herself as she lifted his head to put a pillow under it. Rumi and Mira walk out of their rooms, smelling homemade breakfast.

“Bobby?” Mira asks, Bobby was the one to cook them something as rumi would somehow burn water, Mira never took an interest in cooking, and Zoey tries but she can’t get the hang of it. The walk to the kitchen to see not Bobby, but Baby. Handling the kitchen with a glass of wine in his hand.

“Baby??” Rumi is baffled at what she’s seeing

“You cook?!” Mira is just as shocked.

“Oh, morning. Yeah I cook, apparently I’m the only one here who does!” He rolls his eyes as he takes a sip of wine. The girls look at each other embarrassed.

“Anyways. Coffee?”

“Yes please.. thank you..”

they sit at the table talking until Rumi’s bedroom door opens, and Jinu walks out, she had never seen him freshly awake, or in anything that wasn’t on the nicer side, but seeing him in a white tee and sweats, she could feel the heat rising to her face. All traces of anger she felt towards him gone in an instant. Mira notices and taps her shin under the table, making Rumi snap out of it, didn’t stop her from looking though. The reverse takes place when both romance and Abby leave Mira’s room, Abby, like second nature, had torn open his shirt in his sleep, his torso out on display. Mira stares at both of them hard. Rumi taps her back.

“Uh what? Oh right. Abby!”

“Hm?”

“Go change!!”

“Hu?? Oh shit. My bad!” He turns around and gets back in the room to change into a different, not torn, shirt. Romance walks up to her, sees her cup is empty, and in his usual flirty manner, says to her.

“More coffee love?”

“One, I’m not your love. Two, that would be great thank you.”

“As you wish~” he refills her cup and leaves as his fingers glide up her arm, she contemplates killing him right there. But can’t deny that she somewhat enjoys the service she’s getting.

“What are you making baby?” Jinu walks into the kitchen and leans on the counter.

“Pancakes and eggs, and of course, bacon.”

“Hell yeah! Thanks Gordon Ramsey!”

“Yeah yeah” he takes a sip of his wine, already fed up with everyone. The heat isn’t helping.

“Are you.. drinking??”

“Yup. If I’m gonna deal with you being all lovey dovey with your girlfriend I’m not doing it sober!”

“He’s not my boyfriend! Far from it!” Rumi slams on the table glaring at baby.

“Yeah right. You wasted no time getting him alone in your room when we got here.”

“She was..” he looks at Rumi, she’s looking at him as if she were pleading for him to not expose what happened.

“She was scolding me in private.. it was scary.” Her eyes show relief as she gives him a silent thank you. Zoey finally walks out the room, flustered, with mystery following close behind.

“Sorry again..” giggling, she turns to him.

“Don’t worry about it, I’m ok with it!”

Abby walks back out.

“Hey it’s a little hot in here isn’t it?” Mira looks at him, all the commotion was distracting her from the fact that it was warmer than usual.

“Yeah actually. Zoey what’s the AC at?”

Zoey runs to the panel, and sees it’s at the same as yesterday.

“Same as yesterday.”

The phone rings. It’s Bobby. Rumi picks up. Zoey and Mira huddle behind her.

“Hi Bobby!”

“Hey girls! So I’m just calling to let you know, I don’t know if you could feel it already, but the AC in the building is broken. But no worries! I just booked you guys a private day at the most secluded and funnest water park in Seoul!” The girls look at each other in excitement and then realize they have guests..

“That’s amazing thank you much Bobby! But uh.. question.. could we maybe.. bring guests..?”

“Uh… yeah that’s fine? I’m sorry you have guests??”

“Yeah.. say hi boys..”

The boys all hanging out in the kitchen look at her and the phone.

“Hi Bobby!”

“… hi boys… uh.. you can explain later? As of right now you should get out of the heat and into the water, I’ll have someone come by and fix it by the end of today!”

“Thank you Bobby! Don’t worry we will explain later!” Rumi hangs up the phone. Jinu sets a plate of food in front of her, she smiles warmly at him, the other boys follow suit, they all sit and eat, then Rumi speaks up.

“Ok. So, game plan. It’s gonna get hot in here, so Bobby did us the favor of reserving a nice secluded… waterpark!” All the boys except for Abby look at them in confusion.

“A.. what??” Baby looks at her like she spoke a different language.

“You’ve never been to a waterpark??” Zoey shouts.

“You guys forget all of us except for Abby are like. Hundreds of years old.”

“Oh. Right. Well. A water park is like a regular park but with tons of pools, a river and a LOT of water slides. Bobby reserves it for us at least 8 times every summer!”

The boys are amused at the idea, they’ve never heard of it but it definitely sounds like a good way to fight this heat.

“After we eat we will get changed and head out.” They finish the food, thank baby, and the girls take their assigned Saja boys to their room. Jinu walks to Rumi’s room.

“So what exactly did you say a “waterpark” is?”

“First off, it’s in the name. Second, it’s like.. a bathhouse, but FUN! You know? Now go get changed.”

“Alright.” He walks to her closet and comes back out shortly after I’m nothing but a towel. She looks at him wide eyed as intense heat rises to her face, her mind racing with every indecent thought in the book.

“You ok?”

“What are you wearing??”

“Uhm.. nothing?”

“Where are your clothes??”

“You said it was like a bathhouse..”

“THAT WASNT CLOTHING ADVICE?!?”

“Oh. Sorry..”

“Do you not know what swimming trunks are?”

“What now?”

“Oh gods you’re joking. Ok. You put clothes on. I will be back.”

“Hm, whatever you say Rumi.. but don’t pretend your not curious about what’s under the towel~”

“Shut up! I’m still mad at you..”

“Yet you don’t deny it..”

Rumi grabs a pillow, still looking away, she throws it at him.

“Go change!!” She screams in frustration as she storms out of the room. She walks over to Mira and Zoey with their disguises in hand, they are already being surrounded by their guys. Baby has downed half the damn bottle of wine and still looks fed up.

“Girls we got go. Apparently they don’t know what swim trunks are!”

“Hu? How do you-“ Zoey sees the intense blush on Rumi’s cheeks.

“Ohhhhhhh. Yeah let’s go.” Mira says, Zoey looks at her room, knowing mystery is in there, she quietly curses them for making her go. They make it to a clothing store, checking out swimming clothes. Rumi finds the perfect pair, teddy bears and choo choo trains.

“It’s perfect.”

The girls pay for the trunks and quickly get back home. They find the boys sitting on the couch, watching tv. Baby’s bottle of wine empty, he looks a little happier. A little.

The girls grab their guys and take them to go change. Jinu changes into his shorts and comes back out. The lack of shirt is keeping Rumi from being able to focus.

“So? How do you like them?” Knowing that she wants him to be annoyed he looks at her and whispers

“Choo choooo”

“Noooo! I hate you!!” She hangs her head in defeat. He guides her chin to look up at him.

“I’m sure you do~”

“Shut up!” She runs out the room. Flustered as all hell. Zoey hands mystery his trunks and sends him to change, he comes out shortly after, also lacking a shirt, she stares for a solid minute face blushing a deep red, he secretly enjoys the attention. As much as she doesn’t want to, she shakily hands him a shirt, he frowns and puts it on. She finally breathes again.

“Ok ok! Go wait for me in the living room I gotta change!” He pouts as he walks out of the room. That drives her crazy, knowing what was going through his mind at that moment. She wasn’t gonna be able to survive this. She could tell. Rumi kicks Jinu out of the room and tells him the same. Mira follows suit, Jinu looks nervous, Abby nudges him.

“What? Worried you’ll pass out when you see her?”

“Yes actually have you seen her??”

“Eh, not my type.”

“She’s everyone’s type.”

Rumi’s door opens and she walks out, wearing a purple halter top and gold yellow boyshorts, sunglasses, and sandals.

“So.. how do I look?” Jinu stands frozen, intense heat blasting his face, he slowly turns red as he stutters heavily trying to get words out. Rumi giggles at his reaction as she walks past him, teasing him by running her nails on his skin.

“Good to know..” he felt as if he could explode right there and then. He’s not the only one, as Mira comes out of her room shortly after, wearing a black tankini top and a matching black sarong skirted bikini bottom, a sun hat, sunglasses, and sandals. The once teasing Abby was now struggling to take his eyes off of her, mouth wide open, romance is in a visible trance.

“What are you idiots looking at?”

“Only the most beautiful being I’ve ever seen..” romance smiles at her, wiping the hair from his face.

“Settle down Romeo.”

“Hard to do that with you around gorgeous..” Abby teases. Mira scoffs and waves them away, not totally hating the attention though. Mystery sits facing Zoey’s door like a waiting puppy. She comes out a little while after, styling a teal green monokini, a short light blue sarong skirt and white flats.

“How.. how do I look?” She was nervous. Almost desperate for his opinion to be good. He was frozen in place. Jaw practically hitting the floor.

“I’m.. honored..”

“Honored?? For what?”

“For being allowed to see you.. in that..”

Her face burned bright pink, it wasn’t what she was expecting to hear but she wasn’t complaining whatsoever. The group loaded into huntr/x’s limo, catching a ride to the water park, the girls were excited, the guys curious and intrigued. As they approached the tall slides, Rumi spoke up.

“We’re here!”

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As the group walks through the gates, the guys look up, and up, and up, until they see the top of a water slide. Jinu speaks with panic in his voice.

“What the hell is that?!?!”

“That’s a water slide!”

“That’s a slide??? Who in their right mind would get on that?!” Rumi glares at him with a mischievous look in her eyes.

“No…”

Halfway up the stairs, Jinu continuously looks down. Clearly nervous.

“We’re not that far up I can still back out right??”

“Nope! You’re doing this!”

“Whyyyyy! That looks terrifying!”

“Do it and I’ll stop being mad at you.”

Without a second thought he sprints up the stairs, sprints back, picks her up, and sprints back up.

“Jinu!” He makes it to the top of the stairs where he finally lets her down, she’s surprised at how determined he is. Reality strikes him as he sees how high up they are, still, his does not back down. They get in the raft as the lifeguard explains the safety instructions, his heart beats faster and faster and faster, fearing the very clear drop. Rumi, who is sitting in front of him, squeezes his leg, assuring him he’ll be fine. The lifeguard steps out of the way, letting the raft start the journey.

“Whyyy did I agree to this again???”

“Because you care about me and you want me to be nice to you again!”

“Right!” The ride gets faster as they approach the drop.

“I’ll live right??”

“Yes you dork! You’ll be fiNEEEEE!”

“THIS ISNT FIIIINEEEE!” The guys are cracking up watching Jinu’s reaction to a water slide, Zoey is recording everything. As the ride comes to an end, Jinu is soaked, petrified, and frozen in place. Rumi on the other hand is laughing like she had the time of her life, he stares at her like she just admitted to murder.(tee hee, a little reference)

“That was awesome!!”

“..uh hu… awesome..”

“Oh get up you big baby you’re fine!!” She grabs his hand and leads him out. The guys see him and cackle at the terrified look on his face. Rumi looks at him and realizes something deeper is going on. She separates them from the group.

“We’re gonna go to the river!”

Zoey throws up a thumbs up, and she leads him to the river. Calm, relaxing, and quiet.

Once they are in their floaties, in the water. She gets closer to him.

“Hey.. you ok? Was it that bad?”

“Hu? No! No.. the slide was fine.. terrifying! But fine..”

“Then what’s going on Jinu? You look like you’ve seen a ghost..”

“…”

“You can tell me..”

“The drop.. i couldn’t help but remember when gwi-Ma would pull me down to the demon realm whenever I would fail, or stray off track.. I thought I’d forget by now..”

She gently takes hold of his hand.

“As much as your mind wants to forget, your body will never forget trauma. It stays with you forever.. but you can learn to deal with it.. we don’t have to get on anymore slides ok?”

“Wait what? No! Don’t let that keep you from enjoying your fun. I’ll be ok.. promise!”

She looked at him, his eyes showing honesty but fear, she knew there were slides without drops, they will just stick to those, she can do the others with her girls. Jinu put his head down, enjoying the cool water, and the calm stream of the river. Rumi reaches and runs her fingers through his soaked hair.

“You swim right?”

“I’m decent.”

“Good, we can all hang out at the pool after this then..”

“Sounds good beautif- I- I mean Rumi.”

His eyes are wide, he can’t believe he let that slip. Her gaze softens, blush creeping up, she giggles and leans towards him, planting a kiss on his cheek. His face grows a deeper shade of red, stuttering like crazy once again as he tries to speak, she giggles again and pulls him in, her lips meeting his in a soft, playful kiss, he melts completely, his hand wrapping behind her neck as he kisses her back, they are interrupted by sounds of splashing water and voices.

“There you are lovebirds!” They turn to see Zoey followed by everyone else, they sped through the river to catch up. Rumi sighs, both glad to see everyone getting along, and disappointed that her moment with Jinu was interrupted, mystery is following her everywhere, almost attached to her hip. She loves every second of it.

“Do you guys want to hang out in the pool after this?” Rumi asks the groups, the all reply with approval, pool it is! Jinu can’t stop staring at her, there is so much love and admiration in his eyes, her heart beat quickens when she sees him, anger no longer filling her, only relief to see him smiling at her again.

They reach the end of the river and make their way to the pool, the girls see an open area to cool down and relax, the boys however, see an arena with all the potential for chaos. They are about to  rush into the pool, when they are stopped by the girls. They turn to see them holding bottles of sunscreen. Mystery rushes back to Zoey, Abby and romance walk back, same as Jinu.

“You need sunscreen before you get in Jinu, we were in the shade before but now we’re exposed.”

“But… we’re demons..”

“Sun. Screen.”

“Fineee.”

“Thank you.” She finishes applying the rest on his face and gives his cheeks a tap.

“Ok you’re all good now. Go have fun!” He doesn’t hesitate as he rushes back to the pool, jumping in and landing directly on romance, they start jumping on eachother, trying to sink one another. Meanwhile, baby is on the side lines, chilling on an inflatable duck, sipping on a fresh margarita. Not interested in showing off, he’s wearing crocs, a long sleeved shirt, and shorts. They girls look at each other, concerned, they worry one of the guys might get hurt. After seeing mystery throw Abby all the way to the other side of the very long pool, and Abby getting right back up and jumping back, their worries disappear. They could probably lose an arm and still be fine.

The girls relax in the pool, hanging onto the wall.

“So.. how’s it going with your guys?” Rumi asks around the trio.

“Mystery is doing fine.. he’s really clingy.. that and how hard it is to not stare at him.. not a good combo for me, I don’t know if I’ll be able to keep it together much longer..”

“As in.. you like him?”

“Duh.. I thought that was obvious.. sigh I need that boy more than oxygen.. why did he have to be a demon…” Mira swims in front of them.

“With the way Rumi and Jinu were making out earlier I don’t think the fact that they are demons matters anymore.”

“You were making out with Jinu????”

“Zoey you were in front of all of us how did you not see??”

“Water in the eyes.”

“That makes a lot of sense for you yeah..”

“So.. you’re saying I can..”

“Go get your boy Zoey.”

In the blink of an eye she was already half way to mystery, after flirting the whole day long and teasing him when he stared a little too long, but also holding back herself, she finally got approval to make a move.

“Hey mystery.. your girl is coming~” Abby teases, mystery tenses up and turns around.

“Hi..”

“Hey..”

“What’s up?”

“I-uh…uhm..”Her face gets redder and redder until she lunges at him, pulling him in and kissing him. His eyes widen under his soaked bangs, he grabs her waist and pulls her closer, the guys cheer at mystery’s victory. She breaks the kiss and kisses his cheek before turning around.

“Ok bye!” She rushes back, completely flustered and red. Mystery is stunned for a second but regains composure and decides to stick with her again. He swims to her and just stays at her side. She holds his hand, and he swims closer. Abby and romance swim up to the group.

“So Mira.. that’s two of three now.. you wanna join the club?~” Abby teases, his smugness making him look punchable.

“Ew hell no! get away from me!” She gags.

Abby and romance are disappointed but swim back to their original spot, they meet with Jinu again, and start plotting against baby, they go underwater and swim towards his duck, once they emerge, they reach for the duck, thinking baby is asleep. They freeze as they hear him speak.

“If you do that I will kill all of you in front of your girlfriends. Don’t test me.” They back off and step away.

They all swim towards the girls, Jinu ends up next to rumi, and romance and Abby surround Mira, she rolls her eyes and groans, but doesn’t hate the sight in front of her, blush plastering her cheeks. They all settle down and relax, the afternoon growing hotter, and the silence growing, Jinu of all people suggests a water slide, they all agree, they rush to one of the larger slides, Rumi catches up to Jinu who is behind everyone, she grabs his hand.

“Are you sure?”

“Yeah.. I’ll be ok, don’t worry.. besides.. that one looks fun!” She smiles at him and leads him back to the group.

They split into two groups because it was a four person raft. They realize they are one person short.

“Where’s baby??”

Mira looks over the railing into the pool, he’s still there, relaxing on his duck, away from any and all couples, sipping on yet another margarita.

“Having the time of his life, he’ll be alright.”

“Looks like it’s just us three then my love..” romance reaches for her hand.

“I’m not your love.” She snaps, trying to hide how flustered he makes her. The trio goes first, then the rest, the girls are having the time of their lives, the guys however are holding on for dear life, except for Jinu, who is just happy it’s not a drop. They reach the bottoms and Jinu laughs when he sees the other guys. Baby approaches the group, empty glass in hand. Now completely buzzed.

“Sssup losersss”

“Damn your drunk.” Jinu points out.

“Barely. Still not enough to tolerate your asses..” they hold baby up as they grab their stuff, the sun is setting and Bobby texted them a while ago telling them the AC is back up.

“I’m watered out for the day..” Rumi sighs, ready to go home.

“I think we all are, we’ve been here all day!” Zoey is leaning on mystery’s shoulder, Jinu has his arm around Rumi’s waist, and romance and Abby have their arms around Mira’s shoulders, they load into the limo and get a ride home, the AC is cool and the adrenaline crash is hitting them all, they each take a shower and collapse in bed,

Jinu falls asleep almost immediately, his arm falling over Rumi, she pulls him to her and tangles her body with his, breathing him in and drifting off herself, Zoey and mystery fall asleep on the couch in the middle of a movie, and Mira is once again surrounded by Abby and romance, she sighs and gets comfortable, falling asleep between the two, her head rested on Abby’s chest and romance behind her with his arms around her waist, breathing her in.  Baby gets up from the floor, looks at Zoey and mystery and gags.

“I need a drink…”